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Chris Silverwood
Portrait of Chris Silverwood

Christopher Eric Wilfred Silverwood

Born: 5 March 1975, Pontefract, Yorkshire
Major Teams: Yorkshire, England.
Known As: Chris Silverwood
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium


Test Debut: England v Zimbabwe at Bulawayo, 1st Test, 1996/97
Latest Test:
England v South Africa at Centurion, 5th Test, 1999/00

ODI Debut:
England v Zimbabwe at Bulawayo, 1st ODI, 1996/97
Latest ODI:
England v Zimbabwe at Bulawayo, 5th ODI, 2001/02

NBC Denis Compton Award 1996

Career Statistics:

TESTS
 (including 14/01/2000)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave     SR 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding    5    6   3    19    7*   6.33  29.23   0   0    2   0

                      O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling             134     27   415   11  37.72  5-91    1   0  73.0  3.09

ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS
 (including 13/10/2001)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave     SR 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding    7    4   0    17   12    4.25  50.00   0   0    0   0

                      O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI   4w  5w    SR  Econ
Bowling              51      0   244    6  40.66  3-43    0   0  51.0  4.78

FIRST-CLASS
 (1993 - 2002)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  122  161  32  2013   70   15.60   0   5   26   0

                      O       R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling            3349   10513  391  26.88  7-93   18   1  51.3  3.13

LIST A LIMITED OVERS
 (1993 - 2002)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  157   86  31   779   61   14.16   0   4   25   0

                      O       R    W    Ave   BBI   4w  5w    SR  Econ
Bowling            1182.5  4925  211  23.34  5-28    4   1  33.6  4.16

- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.


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Born in Pontefract in March 1975, Chris Silverwood is a natural sportsman who boasts a black belt in karate and represented Yorkshire at athletics in his youth. Silverwood won a place at the Yorkshire Cricket Academy and made his first-class debut for the county in 1993. He soon impressed as one of a remarkable troop of young fast bowlers from Yorkshire, and won a place for England U19 against India in 1994. With hunched shoulders and a powerful leap into his fairly chest-on delivery stride, Silverwood uses his whole 13 and-a-half stone, 6' 1" frame to generate considerable pace and bounce from a long, straight run.

Silverwood took just 18 wickets at 35 in 1995, but 47 wickets in the 1996 championship season won him his county cap and the Cricket Writers' Young Cricketer of the Year award. He was the surprise selection on the winter tour of Zimbabwe and New Zealand but impressed, winning selection for the first Test ahead of Caddick and taking 3-63 and 1-8 against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo. He also made his one-day international debut in Zimbabwe, playing in each of the three games as England slipped to a 3-0 defeat. He was unlucky not to gain another Test cap after taking 6-44 against New Zealand A at Wanganui, though he did play in another two one-day internationals, including an unsuccessful stint as a pinch-hitter at Wellington. He later played the same role with some success for Yorkshire in county cricket.

Silverwood lost rhythm at the start of 1997, and was unable to build on the momentum that placed him in the Test reckoning, enduring one expensive spell in a one-dayer against Australia at Lord's. But he came back well in the second half of the season, culminating in 7-93 and 5-55 against Kent, career-best figures for the match and innings. Consistently good seasons in 1998 (48 wickets at 23) and 1999 (59 wickets at 20) kept him in consideration for higher honours, and he toured the West Indies (1997-98) without playing in a Test.

He had to wait until the 1999-2000 tour of South Africa for a recall. Bowling with surprising pace and hostility (he was timed at 149.6 kph in Port Elizabeth, about 93 mph), he won the new ball ahead of Gough and took a Test-best 5-91 at Cape Town. However, a relative lack of movement off the seam or in the air counted against him and he slipped behind in the race for inclusion in England's pace attack.

The 2000 season was disrupted by injury, and he was overlooked in favour of Yorkshire teammates Ryan Sidebottom and Matthew Hoggard then and at the start of 2001, despite a good A Tour of the West Indies. But he responded in fine style, and forced his way back into the reckoning with three five-wicket hauls, including 5-20 against Glamorgan and a career-best 70, bludgeoned off 74 balls against Essex. He nonetheless remained on the international fringe throughout the summer and, although he did nothing wrong in the one ODI he played on England's short tour of Zimbabwe which followed, there was no place for him in either of England's winter squads.

To his frustration he remained tantalisingly on the fringe of international recognition in 2002 but it was not until the unfortunate injury to Simon Jones in the Brisbane Test of the Ashes tour that he was finally called into the Test squad. This was familiar territory for Silverwood, having been called away from A tours in both 1998 and 1999 to join the full squad, giving him another chance to prove that he has matured into a genuine international prospect. (Copyright Cricinfo November 2002)

* Last Updated: Saturday, 09-Nov-2002 15:01:41 GMT


 
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